35.9 - EXPENDITURE BY DEPARTMENT.
35.9 EXPENDITURE BY DEPARTMENT.
1. a. The department may expend not more than six hundred
dollars per year for any one child who has lived in the state of Iowa
for two years preceding application for state educational assistance,
and who is the child of a person who died prior to September 11,
2001, during active federal military service while serving in the
armed forces or during active federal military service in the Iowa
national guard or other military component of the United States, to
defray the expenses of tuition, matriculation, laboratory and similar
fees, books and supplies, board, lodging, and any other reasonably
necessary expense for the child or children incident to attendance in
this state at an educational or training institution of college
grade, or in a business or vocational training school with standards
approved by the department.
b. A child eligible to receive funds under this section shall
not receive more than three thousand dollars under this subsection
during the child's lifetime.
2. a. Upon application by a child who is less than thirty-one
years of age, and who is the child of a person who died on or after
September 11, 2001, during active federal military service while
serving in the armed forces or during active federal military service
in the Iowa national guard or other military component of the United
States, and who at the time of entering into active military service
had maintained the person's residence in the state for a period of at
least six months immediately before entering into active military
service, the department shall provide state educational assistance in
an amount of no more than the highest resident undergraduate tuition
rate established per year for an institution of higher learning under
the control of the state board of regents less the amount of any
state and federal education benefits, grants, or scholarships
received by the child, or the amount of the child's established
financial need, whichever is less, to defray the expenses of tuition
at any postsecondary educational institution in this state.
b. A child eligible to receive state educational assistance
under this subsection shall begin postsecondary education prior to
reaching age twenty-six, shall not receive more than an amount equal
to five times the highest resident undergraduate tuition rate
established per year for an institution of higher learning under the
control of the state board of regents during the child's lifetime,
and shall, to remain eligible for assistance, meet the academic
progress standards of the postsecondary educational institution.
Payments for state educational assistance for a child under this
subsection shall be made to the applicable postsecondary educational
institution. The college student aid commission may, if requested,
assist the department in administering this subsection. Section History: Early Form
[C39, § 482.09; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79,
81, § 35.9] Section History: Recent Form
92 Acts, ch 1140, § 5; 94 Acts, ch 1200, §9; 99 Acts, ch 180, §4;
2005 Acts, ch 115, §7, 40; 2006 Acts, ch 1182, §36; 2008 Acts, ch
1032, § 7; 2008 Acts, ch 1064, § 2, 3
Referred to in § 35.8, 35.10 Footnotes
2008 amendments to subsection 2 take effect April 11, 2008, and
apply retroactively to July 1, 2007; 2008 Acts, ch 1064, § 3